Owen Ryan describes a positive development he has noticed in the business community in recent years.
Use the following prompts to facilitate a guided discussion on this installment of Walking the Talk: Insights on Putting Ethics into Practice.
What is the difference between legal and ethical in the context of corporate decision making?
How does Ryan characterize the shift in corporate America from a compliance culture to a culture of doing the right thing?
What factors in the internal and external corporate environment are contributing to this shift?
How can asking ourselves “Would I do this in the light of day?” or applying the “newspaper test” (would I do this if it was featured on the front page of the newspaper), or other related lenses in which we “shine a lot of light” on our decisions be helpful? How can employers create conditions under which employees are continually “shining a light” on their decision making processes?
These three qualities can help you thrive and connect—even in a world that’s drowning in distrust.
John Carreyrou is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose work exposed fraud at the blood testing startup, Theranos. He shares lessons from the Theranos saga about what drives dishonesty in business.
As part of our mission to inform, equip, and inspire values-based leaders, the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership and its Faculty Fellows stay on the lookout for new books. In our fifth annual list of Best Books for Ethical Leaders, we share ten books published during the 2021 calendar year that bridge the worlds of business and academia and provide practical insights that can help leaders live and work more ethically.
